[MPlayer-users] Sequential videos

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Thanks Antonio, this should do it.




On Jun 17, 2011, at 11:29 PM, Antonio Olivares  
<olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> --- On Fri, 6/17/11, Used For Web Lists <f40lms at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: Used For Web Lists <f40lms at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: [MPlayer-users] Sequential videos
>> To: "mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu" <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
>> Date: Friday, June 17, 2011, 6:06 AM
>> Hello,
>>
>>        Is there anyway to
>> automatically play sequential videos on Mplayer?
>
> Yes, there is a way to do it.  This is what I do in my case, it  
> might help you with it.  Say I have a group of files scene1.avi,  
> scene2.avi, ...., scene20.avi.  I run a find command from the shell
> $ find ~/directorywherethefilesareat -iname "*.avi" > .avis-to-be- 
> played
> for sequential order I run a sort
> $ sort .avis-to-be-played > .playtheavis-sorted
> then run
> $ mplayer -playlist .playtheavis-sorted
> and it would play the titles sequentially.  I add -fs for fullscreen  
> and -stop-xscreensaver also to prevent screen blanking/screensaver  
> to kick in when playing the files.
>
>> Also, what
>> about looping through videos?
>
> For this you could use something like -loop X where X is a number  
> specifying how many times you want to loop
> $ mplayer -playlist .videofiles -loop 10
> will play the files looping through them 10 times.
>
>> I would like to keep playing
>> family videos randomly, continuosly, it would be great if I
>> could launch this from the shell.
>
> use the -shuffle command to randomly play files
> $ mplayer -shuffle -playlist .video-files
>
> with other options that you want/need.
>>
>
>
> Hope this helps in some way.
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio
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